The other New York that’s never reblogged, the one removed from the fashion of Soho, the nightlife of the meatpacking district and the glamour of Fifth Avenue. Chris Arnade shows life in its rawest New York form. I avoid the topic of ‘moi’ like the plague, but here goes, I try to make it to the Bronx at least once a week to motivate teens and recovering drug addicts into ‘a wholesome’ lifestyle so as to reclaim custody of their offspring and their lives!
Chris Arnade:
Cynthia, forty six, starting prostituting at the age of thirteen. She turned to the streets after battling her mother, a single mother in Brooklyn. “I didn’t want to listen to her, she didn’t give me any time.” Cynthia is now the mother of fifteen children, eleven of which are still alive. Her “baby” is sixteen, her oldest child thirty.
We talked about the child prostitutes in Hunts Point now. She told me “Hunts Point isn’t what it used to be, when the girls would stick together. Then came crack and heroin, that fucked up everything. A girl out there at that age. She got no choice. It ain’t right.”
Cynthia claimed to be drug free, but she was clearly on crack, agitated and slurring. When I asked her how she wanted to be described she looked me in the eye, thought for a second, then said “An honest person. Thats what I am. An honest person.”
![Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Frightly Knightley’
This rather fetching image of film siren Keira Knightley looking less than pristine (the 1970s, mascara-smudged look really suits the “Bend It Like Beckham” star) by artist Stuart Pearson Wright goes on show from 9 January at Riflemaker Gallery in London.
There is though a serious side to Keira’s dishevelled demeanour: Pearson Wright focuses on 21st-century issues such as the mass media and celebrity culture, highlighting “the collective, hysterical conspiracy to appear happy [which] blights our visual world with endless images of overt disingenuousness”.
Knightley, who collaborated with the artist on a video work, Maze (2010), is used to playing the distressed heroine, taking the title role in a new film version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyghz2C3rD1qb1quio1_500.jpg)
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Frightly Knightley’
This rather fetching image of film siren Keira Knightley looking less than pristine (the 1970s, mascara-smudged look really suits the “Bend It Like Beckham” star) by artist Stuart Pearson Wright goes on show from 9 January at Riflemaker Gallery in London.
There is though a serious side to Keira’s dishevelled demeanour: Pearson Wright focuses on 21st-century issues such as the mass media and celebrity culture, highlighting “the collective, hysterical conspiracy to appear happy [which] blights our visual world with endless images of overt disingenuousness”.
Knightley, who collaborated with the artist on a video work, Maze (2010), is used to playing the distressed heroine, taking the title role in a new film version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
(Source: paxmachina)
K street where historians live, work and play.
0 AD: Birth of Jesus. A pretty good guy, but no Newt Gingrich.
476 AD: Rome falls. Newt Gingrich could have averted this.
1215: The English wisely take Newt Gingrich’s suggestion to write the Magna Carta.
1492: Newt suggests, winking, that Columbus sail the wrong way to India, “where I think you’ll find something very interesting.”
1533: Henry VIII decides to take the same number of wives as Newt Gingrich.
1602: Gingrich writes “Hamlet.”
1776: Inspired by “A Nation Like No Other” by Newt Gingrich, available now in hardcover on Amazon.com for just $11.25, the Founding Fathers write the Declaration of Independence.
1789: Newt’s suggestion that Marie Antoinette offer people cake does not go over with the French people as planned. Newt is bewildered (”“I’m always delighted to be offered cake.”)
1858: Newt Gingrich suggests a neat idea for debate formats to Lincoln and Douglas.
April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln ignores Newt’s advice to “stay home from the theater tonight, Abe, and read one of my books for self-improvement.”
1876: General Custer also ignores Newt’s advice.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents a great device that, later, will enable you to receive a robocall complaining about something Mitt Romney did.
1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright put one of Newt’s best ideas into practice, although they have to remove Newt from the plane to achieve liftoff.
1944: Eisenhower takes Newt’s suggestion to land troops at Normandy. Newt cannot accompany them as he is too busy killing Hitler.
1969: Neil Armstrong slowly begins putting Newt’s plans for a moon colony into practice.
1989: Newt knocks down the Berlin Wall.
1990: Newt tells Al Gore how to invent the Internet.
1995: The Best Speaker of the House of All Time takes office.
2013: President Newt Gingrich issues in a new era of peace, prosperity and moon colonies.
2045: Newt Gingrich is canonized, in what he describes as a “uniquely humbling experience for a great man of intellect and letters who has done what no other man in human history could have done because of his rare gifts.”
2060: Newt Gingrich defeats the Antichrist in a series of eight-hour marathon debates, issues in a new millennium of prosperity and revives entire economy on the strength of sales of his 19,568,020,836th book.
2100: Newt Gingrich ascends to heaven. Jesus respectfully gets up so that Newt can be seated.
(Source: Washington Post)
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Shabbat overnight stew, in the spirit of the Iraqi tradition
In her new food blog, chef Vered Guttman reminisces about her aunt Toya’s tbeet, the slow-cooking chicken, stuffed with its inner parts, slow-cooked with rice, spices and eggs - the Iraqi version of the Ashkenazi cholent.
In her modest, shack-like home in southern Israel, my great aunt Toya served some of the best food I’ve ever tasted. After my Iraqi grandmother, Rachel, passed away, her cousin Toya (Victoria) Levy took it upon herself to fill void in our hearts and in our bellies. One of her duties was to prepare tbeet for us on shabbat.
Tbeet is the Iraqi version of a Shabbat overnight stew. A chicken is stuffed with a mixture made of its inner parts, rice and spices, then covered with more rice, topped with hard boiled eggs and cooked overnight. The rice comes out moist and flavorful, the chicken so soft you can literally chew the bones.
The tradition of the Shabbat overnight stews grew from the desire to serve a hot meal on Shabbat, while keeping the Jewish law that prohibited lighting fire on the holy day. Women prepared the dish on Friday and baked it overnight, usually in a communal bakery, so it was ready at lunch time the next day when the men came back from synagogue.
Many people are familiar with the Ashkenazi (Eastern-European) Shabbat stew, the cholent, that is made of beans, potatoes and meat. But Shabbat stews developed all over the Diaspora, and each community had its own version, using some of the local spices and ingredient that were available to them. The Iraqi Jews had the tbeet; Yemenites had jachnoon and the kubaneh (both are basically breads that are baked all night and served with spicy tomato salsa); the North African communities had the d’fina, or skheena, a stew of meat, chickpeas, grains and spices; and the Sephardi Jews of Jerusalem had their own version of Shabbat stew, made with beans, meat and bread patties, called chamin.
